or Knights of St Anthony, a military order, instituted by Albert duke of Bavaria, Holland, and Zealand, when he designed to make war against the Turks in 1382. The knights wore a collar of gold, made in form of a hermit's girdle, from which hung a stick cut like a crutch, with a little bell, as they are represented in Anthony's pictures.

St Anthony's fire, a name sometimes given to the erysipelas. See Erysipelas.